A deterministic and stochastic velocity model for the Salton Trough/Basin and Range transition zone and constraints on magmatism during rifting

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 27883-27897

  Larkin, Steven P ^a,d   Levander, Alan ^a   Okaya, David ^b   Goff, John A ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

USA, CALIFORNIA, CHOCOLATE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 3743074942     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96jb02535     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Barth, A. P., and P. L. Ehlig, Geochemistry and petrogenesis of the marginal zone of the Mount Lowe Intrusion, central San Gabriel Mountains, California, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol., 100, 192-204, 1988.
2. Best, M. G., and E. H. Christiansen, Limited extension during peak Tertiary volcanism, Great Basin of Nevada and Utah, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 13,509-13,528, 1991.
3. Biehler, S., Geophysical study of the Salton Trough of southern California, Ph.D. thesis, Calif. Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, 1964.
4. Claerbout, J. F., Imaging the Earth's Interior, Blackwell Sci., Cambridge, Mass., 1985.
5. Crowe, B. M., Cenozoic volcanic geology and probable age of inception of basin-range faulting in the southeasternmost Chocolate Mountains, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 89, 251-264, 1978.
6. Crowell, J. T., An outline of the tectonic history of southeastern California, in The Geotectonic Development of California, Rubey Vol. 1, edited by W. G. Ernst, pp. 583-600, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1981.
7. Dillon, J. T., Geology of the Chocolate and Cargo Muchacho mountains, southeasternmost California, Ph.D. thesis, 575 pp., Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, 1976.
8. Dillon, J. T., G. B. Haxel R. M. Tosdal, Structural evidence for northeastward movement on the Chocolate Mountains thrust, southeasternmost California, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 19,953-19,971, 1990.
9. Elders, W. A., R. W. Rex, T. Meidav, P. T. Robinson, and S. Biehler, Crustal spreading in southern California, Nature, 178, 15-24, 1972.
10. Foster, M. R., and N. J. Guinzy, The coefficient of coherence: Its estimation and use in geophysical data processing, Geophysics, 32, 602-616, 1968.
11. Fountain, D. M., M. H. Salisbury, and J. Percival, Seismic structure of the continental crust based on rock velocity measurements from the Kapuskasing uplift, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 1167-1186, 1990.
12. Fuis, G. S., W. D. Mooney, J. H. Healy, G. A. McMechan, and W. J. Lutter, Crustal structure of the Imperial Valley region, J. Geophys. Res., 89, 1165-1189, 1984.
13. Gans, P. B., G. A. Mahood, and E. Schermer, Synextensional magmatism in the Basin and Range province: A case study from the eastern Great Basin, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap. 233, 1-51, 1989.
14. Gibson, G. S., Analysis of lateral coherency in wide-angle seismic images of heterogeneous targets, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 10,261-10,273, 1991.
15. Glazner, A. F., and W. Ussler III, Crustal extension, crustal density, and the evolution of Cenozoic magmatism in the Basin and Range of the western United States, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 7952-7960, 1989.
16. Goff, J. A., K. Holliger, and A. Levander, Modal fields: A new method for characterization of random seismic velocity heterogeneity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 493-496, 1994.
17. Hale, L. D., and G. A. Thompson, The seismic reflection character of the continental Mohorovicic discontinuity, J. Geophys. Res., 87, 4625-4635, 1982.
18. Hauge, T. A., et al., Crustal structure of western Nevada from COCORP deep seismic-reflection data, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 98, 320-329, 1987.
19. Hauser, E. C., J. Gephart, T. Latham, J. Oliver, S. Kaufman, L. Brown, and I. Lucchitta, COCORP Arizona transect: Strong crustal reflections and offset Moho beneath the transition zone, Geology, 15, 1103-1106, 1987.
20. Hawkins, J. W., Petrology and possible tectonic significance of late Cenocp seismogramzoic volcanic rocks, southern California and Baja California, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 81, 3323-3338, 1970.
21. Haxel, G. B., The Orocopia Schist and the Chocolate Mountain thrust, Picacho-Peter Kane Mountain area, southeasternmost California, Ph.D. thesis, 277 pp., Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, 1977.
22. Haxel, G. B., and J. T. Dillon, The Pelona-Orocopia Schist and Vincent-Chocolate Mountain thrust system, southern California, in Mesozoic Paleogeography of the Western United States, edited by D. G. Howell and K. A. McDougall, pp. 453-469, Soc. of Econ. Paleontol. and Mineral., Pac. Sect., Santa Barbara, Calif., 1978.
23. Haxel, G. B, and R. M. Tosdal, Significance of the Orocopia and Pelona Schist and Chocolate Mountains thrust in the Late Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the southeastern California-southwestern Arizona region: Extended abstract, Ariz. Geol. Soc. Dig., 16, 52-61, 1986.
24. Haxel, G. B., J. R. Budahn, T. L. Fries, B. W. King, L. D. White, and P. J. Aruscavage, Geochemistry of the Orocopia Schist, southeasternmost California: Summary, in Mesozoic Geology of Southern Arizona and Adjacent Regions, edited by W. R. Dickinson and M. A. Klute, Ariz. Geol. Soc. Dig., 18, 49-64, 1987.
25. Herzig, C. T., and D. C. Jacobs, Cenozoic volcanism and two-stage extension in the Salton Trough, southern California and northern Baja California, Geology, 22, 991-994, 1994.
26. Holbrook, W. S., W. D. Mooney, and N. I. Christensen, The seismic velocity structure of the deep continental crust, in Continental Lower Crust, edited by D. M. Fountain, R. Arculus, and R. W. Ray, pp. 1-43, Elsevier, New York, 1992.
27. Holliger, K., and A. Levander, A stochastic view of lower crustal fabric based on evidence from the Ivrea Zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 1153-1156, 1992.
28. Holliger, K., and A. Levander, Lower crustal reflectivity modeled by rheological controls on mafic intrusions, Geology, 22, 367-370, 1994a.
29. Holliger, K., and A. Levander, Seismic structure of gneissic/granitic upper crust: Geological and petrophysical evidence from the Strona-Ceneri Zone (northern Italy) and implications for crustal exploration, Geophys. J. Int., 119, 497-510, 1994b.
30. Holliger, K., A. Levander, and J. Goff, Stochastic modeling of the reflective lower crust: Petrophysical and geologic evidence from the Ivrea Zone (northern Italy), J. Geophys. Res., 98, 11,967-11,980, 1993.
31. Holliger, K., A. Levander, R. Carbonell, and R. Hobbs, Some attributes of wavefields scattered from Ivrea-type lower crust, Tectonophysics, 232, 267-279, 1994.
32. Humphreys, E. D., and R. W. Clayton, Tomographic image of the southern California mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 19,725-19,746, 1990.
33. Humphreys, E. D., and B. H. Hager, A kinematic model for the Late Cenozoic development of southern California crust and upper mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 19,747-19,762, 1990.
34. Lachenbruch, A. H., J. H. Sass, and S. P. Galanis Jr., Heat flow in southernmost California and the origin of the Salton Trough, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 6709-6736, 1985.
35. Larkin, S. P., and A. Levander, Wave-equation datuming for improving deep crustal seismic images, Tectonophysics, in press, 1996.
36. Levander, A., and B. S. Gibson, Wide-angle seismic reflections from two-dimensional random target zones, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 10,251-10,260, 1991.
37. Levander, A., and K. Holliger, Small-scale heterogeneity and large-scale velocity structure on the continental crust, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 8797-8804, 1992.
38. Levander, A., R. W. England, S. K. Smith, R. W. Hobbs, J. A. Goff, and K. Holliger, Stochastic characterization and seismic response of upper and middle crustal rocks on the Lewisian gneiss complex, Scotland, Geophys. J. Int., 119, 243-259, 1994a.
39. Levander, A., R. W. Hobbs, S. K. Smith, R. W. England, D. B. Snyder, and K. Holliger, The crust as a heterogeneous "optical" medium, or "crocodiles in the mist", Tectonophysics, 232, 281-297, 1994b.
40. Lonsdale, P., Geology and tectonic history of the Gulf of California, in The Geology of North America, The Eastern Pacific Ocean and Hawaii, vol. N, edited by E. L. Winterer, D. M. Hussong, and R. W. Decker, 499-521, Geol. Soc. of Am., Boulder, Colo., 1989.
41. May, D. J., and N. W. Walker, Late Cretaceous juxtaposition of metamorphic terranes in the southeastern San Gabriel Mountains, California, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 101, 1246-1267, 1989.
42. McCarthy, J., and G. A. Thompson, Seismic imaging of extended crust with emphasis on the western United States, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull, 100, 1361-1374, 1988.
43. Morris, R., D. Okaya, E. Frost, and P. Malin, Base of the Orocopia Schist as imaged on seismic reflection data in the Chocolate and Cargo Muchacho Mountains region of southeastern California, and the Sierra Pelona region near Palmdale, California, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstr. Programs, 19, 779, 1986.
44. Nafe, J. E., and C. L. Drake, Variations with depth in shallow and deep water sediments of porosity, density, and the velocities of compressional and shear waves, Geophysics, 22, 523-552, 1957.
45. Parsons, T., and J. McCarthy, Crustal and upper mantle velocity structure of the Salton Trough, southeast California, Tectonics, 15, 456-471, 1996.
46. Parsons, T., N. H. Sleep, and G. A. Thompson, Host rock rheology controls on the emplacement of tabular intrusions: Implications for underplating of extending crust, Tectonics, 11, 1348-1356, 1992.
47. Pullammanappallil, S., P. M. Akerberg, A. Levander, and T. J. Henstock, Statistical measures of crustal heterogeneity estimated from controlled source seismic data (abstract), Eos Trans. AGU, 76(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., F386, 1995.
48. Robertsson, J. O. A., J. O. Blanch, and W. W. Symes, Viscoelastic finite-difference modeling, Geophysics, 59, 1444-1456, 1994.
49. Robinson, P. T., W. A. Elders, and L. J. P. Muffler, Quaternary volcanism in the Salton Sea geothermal field, Imperial Valley, California, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 87, 347-360, 1976.
50. Tosdal, R. M., G. B. Haxel, and J. E. Wright, Jurassic geology of the Sonoran Desert region, southern Arizona, southeastern California, and northernmost Sonora: Construction of a continental margin magmatic arc, in Geologic Evolution of Arizona, edited by S. J. Reynolds and J. P. Jenny, Ariz. Geol. Soc. Dig., 17, 397-434, 1989.
51. Valasek, P. A., A. W. Snoke, C. A. Hurich, and S. B. Smithson, Nature and origin of seismic reflection fabric, Ruby-East Humboldt metamorphic core complex, Nevada, Tectonics, 8, 391-415, 1989.
52. Zeit, C. A., and R. B. Smith, Seismic traveltime inversion for 2-D crustal velocity structure, Geophys. J. Int., 108, 16-34, 1992.